Cell Culture Control Parameter Generation Using Closed-Loop Modeling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cell cultivation processes face challenges in optimizing process specifications for reactor systems, as they rely on manual data acquisition and lack efficient methods for generating optimized control parameters.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method that acquire control variables and targets, derive closed-loop transfer functions, and generate setting parameters to fit control target functions, using a control variable model and control function, to optimize cell culture process control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual data acquisition methods are used in cell cultivation processes, then operational simplicity is maintained, but productivity and manufacturing precision are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocess optimization efficiencyVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control system automatically acquires cultivation data, derives transfer functions, and generates optimized setting parameters without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously performing data acquisition, mathematical modeling, and parameter optimization, thereby improving productivity while managing complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual data acquisition and parameter adjustment methods are replaced with an automated computational system that uses mathematical modeling and transfer function derivation. This substitution of manual mechanical operations with automated computational processes enables efficient optimization while maintaining manageable system complexity through software-based solutions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Manufacturing precision

If automated control parameter generation is implemented, then manufacturing precision is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol parameter accuracyVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A transfer function serves as an intermediary mathematical model that connects the process variables and enables automated derivation of optimized setting parameters. This intermediary modeling approach allows the system to achieve high manufacturing precision by using mathematical relationships as a bridge between process data and control parameters, while keeping the overall system complexity manageable through the use of standardized mathematical tools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically adjusts and optimizes control parameters based on derived transfer functions and process data. By dynamically changing parameters through mathematical optimization rather than manual setting, the system achieves high manufacturing precision while the automation of this process prevents complexity from becoming unmanageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Stability of the object's composition

If closed-loop transfer function derivation is used, then control stability is improved, but measurement precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocess stabilityVSAvoiddata acquisition precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary derivation of transfer functions and identification of process characteristics before implementing control. By pre-processing the data and establishing mathematical models in advance, the system can achieve process stability without requiring extremely high measurement precision during operation, as the preliminary modeling phase compensates for measurement variations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The closed-loop transfer function incorporates feedback mechanisms that use process measurements to automatically adjust control parameters. This feedback approach improves process stability by continuously adapting to measured variations, while the mathematical modeling framework allows the system to maintain stability even when measurement precision is limited, as the feedback loop compensates for measurement errors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP4535098A1Apparatus, method, controller, cell culture system, and program
Publication Date: 2025.04.09 YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORP
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AI summary

Provided is an apparatus, comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires a control variable and a control target of a control object in a process controlled by a controller; a derivation unit that derives a closed-loop transfer function in a vicinity of an operating point of the process based on a control variable model that represents behavior of the control variable in the process and a control function used in control by the controller; and a setting-parameter generation unit that generates a setting parameter for use in control by the controller so that the closed-loop transfer function fits a control target function that is derived from the control target.